Poverty and Kids In the United Stated‚ poverty and homelessness are the most serious issue all over the major cities. According to the Institute for Children and Poverty‚ there were an estimated 1.35 million children were possible to undergo homelessness over the year of 2004. In the reading “Still Hungry‚ Still Homeless”‚ the authors use the data to express their concern of homelessness. On the other hand‚ Anna Quindlen’s article “Our Tired‚ Our Poor‚ Our Kids” uses a different way with different
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“differently abled”. Nancy Mairs‚ however‚ is proud to be called a “cripple” as she demonstrates with her use of comparison and contrast‚ blunt diction‚ and confident tone‚ all of which explain why she truly believes that she falls under the “crippled” category. Maris presents three distinct definitions of “disabled”‚ “handicapped”‚ and “crippled” and why she believes that she falls in the last. She advocates that the word “cripple” accurately describes her because it’s a “straightforward and precise”
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Part 4 Cultural Differences between China and England in Teaching Methods in the Documentary Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School Teaching methods consist of four aspects‚ which are the guiding ideology‚ basic methods‚ specific methods‚ and teaching way. The teaching methods include teachers’ teaching methods (pedagogy methods) and students’ learning methods (learning methods) two aspects. It is unity of the didactic and the learning methods. Didactic must be based on learning methods‚ otherwise
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1A 08 November 2012 The Education of Our Nation “[R]aising math‚ science‚ reading‚ and creativity levels in Amerian schools is thed key determinant of economic growth‚ and economic is the key to national power and influence as well as individual well-being” (Friedman and Mandelbaum 100).When a problem arises‚ the first thing a person ought to do is educate themselves on the subject. While most every American agrees‚ America‚ as a nation‚ has put its’ education system on the back burner. In
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Future of Our Education An average tablet filled with thousands of e-books weighs a billionth of a billionth of a gram more than if it were empty of data‚ rather than a single book that’s manually read‚ cannot be updated‚ and contains only a specific published topic. Manufacturing a single tablet requires extraction of 33 pounds of mineral‚ 79 gallons of water‚ and 100 kilowatt hours of fossil fuels resulting in 66 pounds of carbon dioxide while a single tree cut only produces an average
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technology platforms surround them in everyday life. Potarazu‚ an ophthalmologist‚ entrepreneur and an acclaimed expert who writes weekly health care columns on “The Washington Post‚” also approaches to this issue. In his article “Is social media ruining our kids?”
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Education in Our lives What do you think education means to society? What does education mean? An education is commonly defined as a process of learning and obtaining knowledge. Many problems can occur that can prevent an education to people such as religion‚ culture‚ tradition‚ income and where you live or come from. Those can create different assumptions of someone’s educational background. The education for society can be different‚ due to the fact that various types of education plus learning
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On being a cripple: the lesson of losses and gains. In spite of the rapid medicine progress in the last centuries many different incurable diseases still threaten human society. Some of them are deadly; the others develop slowly but restrain the life of a human in various ways. Often sick people just have to put up with the hope to be cured and to accept their situation. However‚ they do have choices to resign themselves to the disease completely or to look for the ways to cope with it and continue
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In Our Kids‚ Robert Putnam argues that the American Dream of equal opportunity has all but ceased to exist in recent years. Driven primarily by the economic divergence of the upper and lower classes‚ children of today overwhelming follow in the educational and economic footsteps of their parents. These economic factors are then further perpetuated and entrenched by the lifestyle gap between the different classes. Spurred on by geographic sorting and the decline of US manufacturing‚ inequality on
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Letting Kids be Kids Parents should let their kids be who they really are. Not worry about apperences‚ hair style‚ clothing. I believe kids should be who they want to be and not what they see everyone else doing‚ because it’s cool‚ or because popular kids are doing it. I am a very strong believer in letting kids dress and do what they want to their own bodies. Well to a point. I believe that if a young females wants to shave their heads‚ and they have wanted to do so for a while‚ their parent or
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